THE Madrid Provincial Court ratified the convictions of four minors for the demonstrations in favor of the rapper supported by Podemos Pablo Hasel. The court of first instance, as revealed by OKDIARIO, declared it proven that several of these demonstrators had destroyed the window of a bank branch in the center of Madrid “use a traffic sign which had been torn from the public highway. In addition, they threw “different objects at the police officers such as fences, paving stones, construction materials, etc.” Several National Police officers were seriously injured.
The judges of the Court, in a ruling presided over by Judge María José García-Galán, confirm “the measure of 2 years of socio-educational tasks “as responsible for an offense of disturbing public order, an offense of attack, a minor offense of injury and an offense of damage” to several of the defendants. Another participant in the violent demonstrations is imposed “the measure of 50 hours of benefits for the benefit of the community and, in the event that he does not consent to his execution, the measure of one year of supervised release as responsible for an offense of disturbing public order and a minor offense of degradation. A final minor accused is acquitted.
On the other hand, the Madrid court considers the appeal filed the public prosecutor’s office representing the Insurance Compensation Consortium and “revokes the amount of compensation in favor of the latter organization, agreeing in its place to compensate 5,023.58 euros. The court only corrects this aspect of the first instance decision. Analyze the damages caused and their amounts one by one. Minors and their parents must also compensate injured police officers. These include, among other things, amounts of 450 euros per injuries340 for injuries and damage to clothes167 for the traffic light which belonged to Madrid City Hall.
The young people’s lawyers assured that there was “an error in the assessment of the evidence, in relation to the statements of the four national police officers who testified”. He assures that it has not been proven that the minor was at the scene of the events. However, the judgment adds: “They don’t specify what he was doing. the minor at the time of his arrest.
“The sentence appealed includes with precision and detail What the registered minors and the witnesses, agents of the national police, testify at the hearing is very striking. The minor applicants are tried according to the same procedure, but they are accused of different facts. The defense claims the police contradicted what they said at the previous hearing, but does not point out what the contradictions are to which he refers”, specifies the judgment.
“The statements of the National Police who witnessed the two events They are essentially the samewith regard to the participation of each of the minors declared proven in the sentence, taking into account the confusion of the moment and that not everyone is a witness to all the facts, they detail the words of the sentence in a way that has not been the subject of dispute. The evaluation of the test is detailed, taking into account that the evidence is abundant and appreciated in accordance with the maxims of experience,” the judges write.
“Concretely, what interests us now is the statement of the National Police, who saw how two boys, who stayed after scolding some neighbors, took a sign that they had previously broken. through the blows and hold on to it and use it passing through ram, They hit the bank. At the time of arrest and for
avoid the same threw a fence to the ground. “He describes the boys as one who had blond hair and another with the upper part of a white coat,” the sentence details. The police were also directly attacked. The violence in defense of Pablo Hasel – currently in prison – was extreme and the justice system had to intervene harshly with these minors.
